put result in clipboard

[maxandersen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I like to take snippet of code and paste image into chat or twitter directly,.

Describe the solution you'd like freeze --clipboard mycode.java or similar to then just be able to paste result without intermediate files

[Moulick]

Also, if freeze could simply output to stdout, on MacOS we could simply do ls | freeze | pbcopy. That also allows piping to any other program, like a image compressor before copying.

[ndom91]

Came here looking for clipboard output as well. But actually outputting to stdout would this and many other use-cases and also be much simpler for yall to implement / maintain.

Folks can then pipe it into the clipboard app of their platform of choice (xcopy for x11 linux, pbcopy for mac os x, wl-copy for linux wayland, etc.)

[AlejandroSuero]

The problem I think at least in MacOS, from what I am working on freeze-code.nvim, is that pbcopy unlike xclip or wl-copy can't copy images itself. But using osascript to set the clipboard to read an image file and copy it it works fine. Same goes for Windows.

• MacOS:

on run args
  set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file (first item of args)) as JPEG picture)
end
-- or just png
on run args
  set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file (first item of args)) as {«class PNGf»})
end
-- without args
set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file "<full-path-to-image>/image.png") as JPEG picture)
-- or just png
set the clipboard to (read (POSIX file "<full-path-to-image>/image.png") as {«class PNGf»})

• Windows

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms; [Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetImage($[System.Drawing.Image]::FromFile("$args[0]")))
# without args
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms; [Windows.Forms.Clipboard]::SetImage($[System.Drawing.Image]::FromFile("<full-path-to-image>/image.png")))

If you want to do it natively to the OS and executing a shell command.

In go there is this repo for cross-platform clipboard which also allows you to use it from the terminal with gclip -copy -f image.png as well as the API, haven't tried the API so I don't know in that regard.

• Image generated with freeze and using any of the commands mentioned:

[AlejandroSuero]

@maxandersen @ndom91 @Moulick @bashbunni

I made a PR (#97) using the previously mentioned cross-platform clipboard package if anyone want to test it out to see if solves this issue.

[Moulick]

@AlejandroSuero sweet! This solves the clipboard problem.

~I still think that freeze should also have an option to write to stdout for other programs.~

nvm, it can write to stdout apparently https://github.com/charmbracelet/freeze?tab=readme-ov-file#output

Change the output file location, defaults to out.svg or stdout if piped. This value supports .svg, .png, .webp.

[AlejandroSuero]

@Moulick When I tried on MacOS for example freeze Makefile | pbcopy it will copy it but raw, without transformation.

That is what you are referring to right?

To be sure, if I need to change something in #97

[AlejandroSuero]

@maxandersen @ndom91 @Moulick I added stdout support on #102

[maxandersen]

awesome! looking forward for this to be in!